• 文献标题:   Band-like transport in highly crystalline graphene films from defective graphene oxides
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   NEGISHI R, AKABORI M, ITO T, WATANABE Y, KOBAYASHI Y
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  • 出版物名称:   SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
  • ISSN:   2045-2322
  • 通讯作者地址:   Osaka Univ
  • 被引频次:   23
  • DOI:   10.1038/srep28936
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

The electrical transport property of the reduced graphene oxide (rGO) thin-films synthesized from defective GO through thermal treatment in a reactive ethanol environment at high temperature above 1000 degrees C shows a band-like transport with small thermal activation energy (E-a similar to 10 meV) that occurs during high carrier mobility (similar to 210 cm(2)/Vs). Electrical and structural analysis using X-ray absorption fine structure, the valence band photo-electron, Raman spectra and transmission electron microscopy indicate that a high temperature process above 1000 degrees C in the ethanol environment leads to an extraordinary expansion of the conjugated pi-electron system in rGO due to the efficient restoration of the graphitic structure. We reveal that E-a decreases with the increasing density of states near the Fermi level due to the expansion of the conjugated pi-electron system in the rGO. This means that E-a corresponds to the energy gap between the top of the valence band and the bottom of the conduction band. The origin of the band-like transport can be explained by the carriers, which are more easily excited into the conduction band due to the decreasing energy gap with the expansion of the conjugated pi-electron system in the rGO.